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2011

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ker·nel (kûrnl)
n.
1. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.
2. The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone.
3. The most material and central part; the core: "that hard kernel of gaiety that never breaks" Evelyn Waugh.